- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Ricky Watson vaunts a commodious career on both the bantam and big screen. He is presently seen in Marc Schölermann's thriller Bark. He will then be seen as "President Lukumba" in political satire Reparation Day created by Brazilian director Walter Solon. Recently, he starred in Netflix' Queen's Gambit alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, and in the European culture network ARTE film, Die Vergesslichkeit der Eichhörnchen.
Ricky's film credits include various roles such as in Martha Coolidge's I'll Find You, Timo Vuorensola's Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Bille August's Eleanor & Colette, Jan Speckenbach's Freedom opposite Johanna Wokalek and Hans-Jochen Wagner and Stephen Hopkins' Race. Additional film credits include, award-winning cult classic Snowblind co-occuring with Wim Wenders, Hilde alongside Heike Makatsch and Dan Stevens, The International directed by Tom Tykwer, The Invasion together with Jeffrey Wright, Johnny Was directed by Mark Hammond and Speed Racer from creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski.
On television Ricky is best known as series regular Dan Holbroke on RTL's popular Alles was zählt. He starred with Matthias Koeberlin in the feature Der Feind in meinem Leben, Miguel Alexandre's Der Mann mit dem Fagott and in Kreutzer kommt co-starred with Rosalie Thomass and Tyron Ricketts. Further television credits include Thomas Jauch's Westflug, guest-starred in the WWII saga Ein Dorf schweigt as well as in Christoph & Friedemann Fromms' Berlin mini series Die Wölfe and appeared in both crime series Soko Wismar and Aktenzeichen XY ungelöst as well as having starred in the Starz network's Joe & Max opposite Leonard Roberts and Til Schweiger.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Sonorous, chasmic voice
- Brobdingnagian booty
- Tapdancer.
- Trained at the boxing club, Sparta 58 in Berlin, Germany for the roll of Joe Louis in the musical "The Fight of the Century".
- Learned to play the guitar for, composed, and performed the song "Up In The Mountains" in a scene for Snowblind.
- Graduate of The University of Michigan.
- Musical performer.
- [about the role in Queen's Gambit]: "To coin the words of the late, great Hattie McDaniel, I'd rather play a garçon than be one."
- [on his tap dance mentor Brenda Bufalino] Brenda noted simply, though quite poignantly, "Don't be a hack." At the time of my North European experience, that was one of the best things she could have said to me.
- [when interviewed for the project I'll Find You] "The female protagonist had what was unjustly taken away from her finally given back."
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